Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex walked towards the area where the giant octopus had landed.

He didn't want to miss out on any potential rewards the hedgehog had for him.

While Alex was walking to that place, he looked at his left arm.

His left arm was no longer frozen, and it actually felt a bit hot. Sadly, his left arm was still severely injured. The freezing of organic material completely destroyed its structure, severing veins, and many other things.

Alex's left arm hadn't been in pain while it had been frozen, but as soon as it had thawed, Alex felt searing pain coming from it.

Alex couldn't really move it much, but he could still experiment with it.

The ethereal spire had entered Alex's left arm, and it remained there. He had already accidentally shot some cold air out of his left arm earlier, and Alex wanted to know how that worked.

Alex was already familiar with how it felt to move Mana, and he willed for the cold Mana in his left arm to explode.

SSSHH!

A blast of cold air left Alex's left arm. Since his left arm was still limply hanging around, the cold hit part of Alex's left leg and the ground.

The ice below Alex's left arm grew by a bit, and the coat on Alex's left leg completely froze.

However, Alex was too busy with something else.

As soon as Alex had willed the Ice Mana to explode, his arm started to burn. Well, it wasn't burning literally, but it felt like it was burning.

Alex quickly ran to one of the spots with destroyed ice. The octopus had destroyed a huge part of the lake when it had surfaced.

SSSSSS!

Alex put his arm directly into the icy water and gritted his teeth. The sound of something hot touching cold water could be heard as soon as Alex's arm hit the water.

'Fuck! That's so hot!' Alex thought. 'Are you serious?! You have Mana, and you follow the Laws of Thermodynamics?! You want to make stuff cold, so you have to make other stuff hot?! Why can't you just do something magical?!'

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out and moved it through the air for a bit.

His arm had received several burns.

However, it was coated with a thin coating of ice now.

His arm definitely felt colder than before.

'My arm is colder than before. So, let's try again!'

SSSHH!

Another blast of cold air, and Alex immediately dipped his arm into the cold water again.

'It's not as hot as previously, but it still feels like I touched a hot plate or something,' Alex concluded.

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out again.

'I wonder, can I use less?'

tried to suppress the Mana but also

SSSH!

cold wind left Alex's left arm again, and Alex's arm heated up

time, Alex's

was just uncomfortably hot, the temperature that would

the cold air that left Alex's left arm wasn't

'So, my arm heats up proportionally to how cold the air is. I'm not sure, but I think the amount

I need to test something

his right arm and pointed it at

bit. Just a tiny, little bit,'

SSSSSHH!

by the storm coming out of the arm. However, since he had only used a little bit, Alex's

had formed on Alex's

rubbed the icicles off his face and looked at

tiny fraction, and my arm probably only heated up by a single degree. Yet, the air on my face was slightly

that this blast uses the outside temperature as a reference when cooling something, not

if I unleashed a blast equaling 20°C, the blast of air would be

scratched his chin as a complicated expression appeared on his

of this ability relies heavily on my environment. After all, if I were in some desert that's 50°C and I did the same thing, my arm would reach 40°C, and

different,' Alex thought as he looked around. 'Sure, the creatures living in such a cold environment have a great cold resistance, but that's only true to a

a 50°C hot desert wouldn't mind a blast of 30°C hot air. However, a

with a 5°C cold arm without issues. It would simply feel very dull, numbs, and awkward. However, I could

even blast them with like 60°C or something. Sure, my arm would get severe burns and would become useless until I healed it, but my enemy would be

Alex scratched his chin.

uses for this ability in a fight. My sword is one-handed anyway, leaving me with

walking all this time, and he finally came close to

passed a tree and saw an area

were all destroyed, and many gigantic needles poked

calmly munching on the octopus, seemingly without a

of the tentacles and saw how

thicker tentacles of the octopus, and

was like Alex stood before the fleshy wall of an

meters long, which simply

jumped onto the tentacle and walked along

over to the spot where the hedgehog was currently munching away

but after some seconds, it noticed

its head to Alex and sniffed

became a bit

body? After all, it was currently

smelled similar to the

He hoped not!

bit of sniffing, the hedgehog pulled its head back and looked at

looked at the octopus

back at

that, the hedgehog walked to the

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

hedgehog had severed the tentacle

BANG!

the tentacle a couple of meters into the